NFL Draft

[CajunIke]

Ray Lewis commentary = epic failure

[BrockMeaux]

Ray Lewis commentary = epic failure

Here's a direct quote from Ray Ray after we picked Cooks:

"This. Is. Football... Drew Brees want to get the ball into his hands... He is a FOOTBALL PLAYER"

He's almost been Emmitt Smith-ian in his commentary. Almost.

[Gueydanmayor]

Great pick for the Saints! Will start immediately and make our offense much more explosive!!1

[ManAboutTown]

Defensive needs > Offensive needs

That's my take on it.
Dennard was the pick. No pick is full proof, but that guy was as close as it gets to a sure thing. Remember I said this.

[CRAWFISH61]

Defense was very good last year and will be better thus year. Receivers are old and slow. When I saw they traded up it was either cooks or dennard. Either would have been a good pick.

[BrockMeaux]

Defensive needs > Offensive needs

That's my take on it.
Dennard was the pick. No pick is full proof, but that guy was as close as it gets to a sure thing. Remember I said this.

I was equally on board with Dennard when we traded up. I think corner is a more immediate need, but with our safety tandem and defensive line, plus the possible availability of equally talented guys like Pierre Desir and Stanley Jean-Baptiste in the 2nd, they may just have decided to let it ride with Keenan Lewis and Champ Bailey knowing we'll get after the QB and have support on the back end for them. We have starters at WR, but Colston isn't getting younger, Toon is a total unknown 3 years in (not a promising sign), and we don't know how Joe Morgan is coming back from knee injuries. WR was a need, make no mistake.

[ManAboutTown]

So we're counting on Lewis, a perineal #2 corner (who admittedly had a career standout year), and a 56 year old has been that's coming off injury?

I understand WR is a need, but c'mon guys, they found Lance Moore in a pile of throw always. Still have corner stones in Stills and Colston. (What's Colston, 30? Middle of his prime) As was said earlier, we find UDFAs better than anyone. Dennard is an elite defensive talent.

Cooks is a fine player. We just didn't need to trade up for him, and I feel like cornerback was the immediate need.

[ManAboutTown]

Ray Lewis commentary = epic failure

I thought the whole panel was an abortion. Wtf is up with Kiper / Gruden dynamic? Boomer looked like he wanted to get the hell out of there.

[Bandwagon King]

I learned a long time ago not to question too hard what Sean Payton & Mickey Loomis do in the draft. They usually have a ggod reason for it. Now the rest of the league W/ exception of Green Bay, Pittsburgh, & the teams picking after the Saints, deserve to have their @$$es kicked. They turned their noses up at the best biggest impact player coming out of college because they had no guts. If fortune belongs to the bold, then the Houston Texans deserve to be pennyless. They will not win a super bowl for a hundred years.

[ManAboutTown]

I learned a long time ago not to question too hard what Sean Payton & Mickey Loomis do in the draft. They usually have a ggod reason for it. Now the rest of the league W/ exception of Green Bay, Pittsburgh, & the teams picking after the Saints, deserve to have their @$$es kicked. They turned their noses up at the best biggest impact player coming out of college because they had no guts. If fortune belongs to the bold, then the Houston Texans deserve to be pennyless. They will not win a super bowl for a hundred years.

For what, being smart? They're going to end up with the best player in the draft and the best quarterback in the draft..